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From surging prices in Perth and Ipswich to bold planning reforms and booming first-home buyer demand, the property market isn’t slowing down for the holidays.

Investors are hunting 2026 hotspots and reassessing who’s really on their side, while buyers are leaning into new schemes, smarter strategies, and emotional motivations to get a foothold.

Here’s what to watch this week.

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Home Buyers Around the Country

  • Inside the trick that gets first homebuyers in the market faster an cheaper (REA)

  • First home buyers on $180,000 can afford only a handful of homes (Domain)

  • More than bricks: Aussies link home ownership to happiness (SPI)

  • Australia’s unhealthiest regions revealed in new research naming top danger zones (REA)

  • Homebuyers keep up the auction fight ahead of Christmas (News)

  • Borrowers feel the pinch of mortgage choices (SPI)

  • New ‘Home Layby Plan’ targets first-home deposit hurdle (ABN)

  • The 3 biggest residential property myths (FirstLinks)

  • How to downsize your home and upgrade your lifestyle (Domain)

  • Property strategy 101: A simple guide for first-time buyers (SPI)

  • Tax warning for Aussie parents gifting kids cash and assets: ‘Avoidable problems’ (Yahoo)

  • First-home buyers embrace ‘COMO’ as demand surges (ABN)

Investors

  • The park, the people, the price: Inside Ipswich’s next big thing (REA)

  • Perth property prices surge as affordable homes sell in days (ABN)

  • The auction market was tipped well in sellers’ favour. That’s changing (Domain)

  • Investors beware: ‘Lazy’ buyer’s agents are costing Aussies millions (SPI)

  • NSW planning reset backed by industry to unlock homes, jobs (ABN)

  • A retail property niche offers a lot more upside (FirstLinks)

  • Queensland’s 17 suburbs to watch out for in 2026’s property market (REA)

  • Experts slam 50-year loans: ‘More risk, less reward’ (SPI)

  • Expert names the 17 suburbs and regions set for property market outperformance (REA)

  • Bold plan to remake Wollongong revealed (News)

  • RBA holds rates, but opportunities for investors remain (SPI)

  • 2025 mortgage year in review: rates down, prices up, investors back (ABN)

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